Ronan Farrow, the quippy son to actor Mia Farrow and director Woody Allen, loves Twitter. Off the strength of 140 characters, the 26-year-old has built a huge social media following and nabbed a news show on MSNBC. Ronan Farrow Daily, which launched ...

Plenty of people are paying attention to Rachel Maddow right now. They're not all happy with her, but they're paying attention. Coverage of the Chris Christie Bridgegate scandal on The Rachel Maddow Show has put her at the center of a ready-made mode...

News junkies now have a new place to get their fix. The Internet Archive is launching a free service called TV News Search and Borrow, which contains more than 350,000 news programs. The organization has archived news clips from 2009 to present from ...

Microsoft has cut its last ties with MSNBC, dissolving its affiliation with the brand's website. The breakup, announced Sunday night, comes after a 16-year partnership between the company and NBC. The latter is buying back its 50% share of the site f...

Microsoft plans to divest itself of MSNBC's web properties, which will be taken over and rebranded by NBC, according to a report. The agreement would rename MSNBC.com as NBCNews.com, according to The Daily Beast, which cites "people familiar with the...

Disney/ABC Television Group has inked a multi-year, multi-platform agreement with Katie Couric. She will host her own nationally syndicated talk show and join the ABC News team. Couric, the former Today Show co-anchor, who left the CBS Evening News l...

Entertainment checkin and recommendation service GetGlue has signed a new broadcast partnership with NBC Universal cable networks USA Network, Syfy and MSNBC. The partnership will reward users who let their friends know when they are watching TV show...

EveryBlock, a hyperlocal news site acquired by msnbc.com in August 2009, unveiled a new version Monday designed to encourage conversation and collaboration among neighbors. "We're shifting from a one-way newsfeed to more of a community-empowered webs...

Here’s a bit of a surprise to end the week: Keith Olbermann, host of MSNBC’s Countdown, ended tonight’s show by announcing he’s leaving, effective immediately. In a statement e-mailed to Mashable by MSNBC, the network says, “MSNBC and Keith Olbermann...

BreakingNews.com, an extension of the popular @BreakingNews Twitter account that MSNBC Digital Network bought in December 2009, has added new social crowdsourcing features to its site enabling users to submit their tweets, photos or videos. The site ...

Last month MSNBC acquired the Twitter account @BreakingNews and its 1.4 million followers, and today, the news network is taking the concept a step further by buying the enviable domain name BreakingNews.com. MSNBC plans to develop the website as a c...

Here’s an interesting deal in the Twitter space. MSNBC has signed a deal with BNO News whereby they’ll take over management of the @BreakingNews Twitter feed, which has amassed more than 1.4 million followers. According to PaidContent, BNO “will now ...

Visual browsing of webpages and media is an increasingly attractive prospect for Internet users. Names like Viewzi, Searchme come to mind, as do inventions like Tag Galaxy and even MSNBC’s Spectra RSS news reader. This weekend, one market player, Pic...

Used to reading news headlines by way of a linear RSS reader, are you? Bored by the daily routine, are you? We understand. Of course, some applications, both Web-based and local, offer glossier presentations than others, but for the most part, they’r...

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